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I don't know why it came as such a surprise to them. It wasn't new information. I know they haven't been laboring under the illusion the Mom-is-a-saint illusion. That ship sailed long ago. So when that package of sweets arrived unexpectedly in our mailbox, why did it rock my kids' world to be reminded of a great truth? Mom doesn't share.
There, I said it. I don't share. I never have. Okay, I do share sometimes, but apparently letting them share my body for nine months was soon forgotten. But I don't share food. Not the good stuff.
Don't look at me like that. I feed them. Daily. Several times. But when I am presented with a tasty morsel, some treat of which there is limited quantity, I go Cro-Magnon. I hide my kill and come back for it later. Bears don't share, so why should I?
I don't know why they thought this package was different. Before management jacked the price up 60%, I routinely bought a vegan brownie at Whole Foods once a week. I savored that tidbit all week long, dividing it into four pieces and treating myself at the end of a long day. The kids would tease me about it, pretending they were going to eat it themselves, but it was all in good fun. They never expected to have any of it for real. And they leave my chocolate cereal alone. It's my new "brownie-isn't-worth-the-money-but-I-need-something-sweet" treat. They leave that alone. Only if I have been a slacker and allowed us to run out of regular cereal do they expect to receive a bowlful. It's my penance.
So why do they seem to think that these delightful little candies are up for grabs? Is it because they are Cadbury? Because they are individually wrapped? Because they are from England? Or is it just because they are mine? And they are. Mine! Mine! Mine!
Upon seeing the contents of the package, daughter threw puppy-dog eyes, middle son hugged me, and Squish, in his Pavlovian response to receiving treats for his dirty business, ran to the bathroom to poop. That's nice, ya'll but no. No. No. No. Mine.
I put the treats in a high cabinet as soon as I brought them in the house. Out of sight, but definitely not out of mind. My son said "You might want a surveillance camera just to keep an eye on them." Does he really think they are staying there? I may be absent-minded, but I am not stupid. I put them in that cabinet to throw them off the trail. I have a series of secret places, and I will simply move my goodies from spot to spot until I have finished them. My dark chocolate and raspberry candies lived in my sock drawer. My brownie lived in the kids' Halloween buckets. Ironically, they never look there. I have been known to tuck treats in an empty Tampax box, guaranteeing no male in the household will touch it. It's like hiding Superman's cookies in a kryptonite cabinet.
So where to put these little morsels? Yeah, right. Like I'm telling. I. Don't. Share.


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Bruin Tennis Players Kick Off 2014 Season This Week
LOS ANGELES - Members of the UCLA men's and women's tennis teams kick off their 2014 seasons this week, with players headed to three separate tournaments throughout the Southwest.
The Bruin women are sending four players to the National Collegiate Tennis Classic at the Sunrise Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Kaitlin Ray, Chanelle Van Nguyen, Courtney Dolehide and Kelly Shaffer will all be competing in singles at that event. Ray and Shaffer will be teaming together in doubles, as will Dolehide and Van Nguyen. The event runs from Friday to Sunday.
Also in action this weekend for the women will be Robin Anderson, Catherine Harrison, Kyle McPhillips, Jennifer Brady and Morgan Thomas, as those players will be taking part at the Freeman Memorial Championships in Las Vegas, Nev. at UNLV's Frank and Vicki Fertitta Tennis Complex. In addition to singles, Anderson and Brady, the No. 1 doubles team in America, will be teaming together in doubles at that event. Harrison and McPhillips will also be vying for the doubles title.
The UCLA men's team has just one tournament on its plate this week, as players head to the Sherwood Collegiate Cup at the beautiful Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Clay Thompson is the No. 1 seed in the 32-player men's singles draw. Marcos Giron and Mackenzie McDonald at seeded No. 1 in the 16-team doubles event. In all, eight Bruin players will be headed to the Sherwood Collegiate Cup, which also features players from national powers USC, Baylor and Stanford. Complete draws for both singles and doubles can be found HERE.


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The High Priestess of Posterity
It doesn't matter if you're Reinhold Messner or Ed Viesturs: your summit never happened unless Elizabeth Hawley says it did.
MISS ELIZABETH HAWLEY has little patience for fools. While I thumb through the file cabinets that line her living room, wedged between Buddhist thangkas and primitive masks, the world's preeminent chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering sits upright in her chair. The American expat is 87 and astute as ever, with a slender build and soft skin. She smooths the folds in her tailored khaki skirt as she watches me fumble around in 46 identical wooden drawers.
"May comes before June," she instructs.
These files are her life's work, containing the largest catalog of man's athletic achievements at the edge of the troposphere. Never mind that Hawley hasn't climbed a mountain in her life. She has interviewed, documented, and, when necessary, investigated nearly every expedition coming through Kathmandu since the country opened its doors to outsiders in the mid 1950s. She's also acted as an archival historian, collecting trip reports from as far back as 1905.
Her files contain detailed information about some 80,000 ascents of roughly 340 Nepalese peaks, including those on the borders of China and India, all of which she can monitor from Kathmandu. Her information is trusted by newswires, scholars, the Nepal Mountaineering Association, this magazine, The American Alpine Journal, European climbing publications, and even a restaurateur: Kathmandu's Rum Doodle offers a free meal to every Everest summiter, but before any meat is thrown on the grill, the manager calls Hawley to confirm the feat.
Over the course of some 15,000 interviews, Hawley has not only recorded history; her research has also sparked and resolved controversies, and she's watched from the front row as the Nepal climbing scene has transformed from tiny cult to mainstream obsession. Though some mountaineers don't savor her interrogations—an expedition's "second summit," a few have called it—all serious alpinists admire her.
"If I need information about climbing 8,000-meter peaks, I go to her," says Italian climbing legend Reinhold Messner. "She has everything."
"She's the queen," says Beth Heller, director of the American Alpine Club Library. "There is nothing else like her records."
I finally locate the musty folder I've been looking for, two drawers down in a center cabinet: "Everest from Nepal; Lhotse; Spring '96." That would be the Into Thin Air year, of course. I'm surprised at how the forms and route diagrams and summit snapshots make the events of that season's infamous tragedy feel so immediate. Seeing Sandy Hill Pittman's large, jaunty handwriting on a document suggests better than anything I've heard how confident she was before heading up the crowded Southeast Ridge.
Hawley doesn't indulge in such ruminations. "That mess" is all she says.
I point out how thick and heavy the manila file is, a couple of pounds at least, and speculate that she must have reported on the debacle for months.
"Nowadays we have maybe eight folders that size for Everest in the spring," she says. "You have no doubt read Jon Krakauer's book. Have you read Anatoli Boukreev's?"
AT FIRST GLANCE, Hawley doesn't fit the profile. Chronicler of climbing? Even in her youth she scarcely hiked. "I don't like trekking at all," she says. "I like to sleep in a comfortable bed, eat hot food in a chair at a table, and move around in the Beetle"—her beloved sixties-era royal blue VW bug.
Hawley earns a modest living by serving as chief executive officer of the Himalayan Trust's Nepal division, a nonprofit started in 1960 by the late Sir Edmund Hillary, a close friend, and occasionally writing for magazines. She also spends a great deal of time responding to research requests from organizations and journalists.
On a typical day, she rises early and gets dressed—"no saris or pants, skirts"—and takes a seat at her dining room table at "dead-on seven o'clock," where she has a banana and a cup of tea with lemon, "no milk." After reading three or four English-language dailies, she meets with other administrators of the Himalayan Trust, which conveniently is located on the ground floor of her building. Just before nine, her Nepali driver picks her up in the Beetle and the real work begins: meeting climbers.
During the busy spring and fall seasons, Hawley or one of her two multilingual assistants will sit down with representatives of roughly 250 expeditions. Through her large network of contacts at outfitters, hotels, and Nepal's permit-issuing Ministry of Tourism, she stays informed about who's coming through town and when.
"I make sure I know what flight they're arriving on," she says. "If it's the Thai flight, which gets in at noon, then at 1:45 I'm on the telephone to their hotel to get an appointment for the next day."
Veteran climbers know what to expect, but for many her promptness can be startling. "You go to your hotel, and as you're checking in the phone is ringing and the man behind the desk says, 'Hawley would like to talk to you,'" says Ed Viesturs, the first American to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000-meter peaks. "You're barely putting your bags down."
She conducts her grillings in hotel gardens or lobbies, a bird-size lady among brawny young men and women. Depending on their level of familiarity, they'll address her as Miss Hawley, Elizabeth, or, after maybe two decades, Liz. Viesturs calls her Liz, but he also makes sure to arrive clean-shaven and spiffed up.
Pen and notebook in hand, Hawley asks for photos and contacts and drawings of their routes. All members of the expedition, including Sherpas, are accounted for. On trips of three dozen or more members, Hawley privately assigns each person a number to make keeping track of them easier.
Her detailed "On Arrival" and "On Return" forms are the core of her method. They nail down every possibly relevant particular, from who fixed how many meters of rope to the exact elevation and chronology of every camp. Looking at the forms she uses, which are spread out between us on a side table, it's not always clear what kind of answer she's looking for. This, apparently, is intentional. I point at a question on one of the forms, which reads, "Members at end?"
"What does that mean?" I ask.
"How many people came back, how many left early, how many died," she says. "That question produces an answer you wouldn't get otherwise."
Pawing through the paperwork while Hawley regales me with stories, I get occasional shivers. She describes the route the French took up Annapurna in 1950 as if the 26,545-foot mountain were rising right outside her window. Telling the story of Messner and Peter Habeler's frigid bivouac on the first ascent of Everest, without oxygen, in 1978, she imagines the cold they suffered and beats her hands on her legs to stimulate blood flow.
When the conversation turns to the present, it's evident that she's not impressed by the shenanigans, ill-advised firsts, and catastrophes that have marred the modern Himalayan climbing era. Still, she's quick to point out that there remain plenty of worthwhile objectives to be accomplished, even on the big hill itself. "Everybody says there's no more unclimbed routes on Everest," she says. "I say, You go look at the east face, especially the East Ridge." She waves her hand toward the file cabinets, as if shooing a climber on.
The ultimate feat, she believes, is a multi-day traverse she calls the Horseshoe. The climber would start by ascending the scalloped face of 25,790-foot Nuptse, then traverse a razor ridge on 27,940-foot Lhotse, climb 29,035-foot Everest via the Southeast Ridge, and descend the West Ridge. Hawley thinks it could be done sometime soon—or possibly "never."
Later, when I mention the Horseshoe concept to American climber Dave Hahn, who has summited Everest 12 times, he chuckles. "It's not calling out to me," he says. "It would be insanely difficult."
BORN IN 1923 and raised in a conservative suburb of New York City, Hawley seemed poised for a conventional life in the metropolis. After earning a master's degree in history from the University of Michigan, she landed a position as a researcher at Fortune magazine in 1946. Her curiosity about other cultures left her restless in Manhattan. Living spartanly, she saved enough to travel to England in 1948. This kicked off eight years of vacations to ever-bolder destinations—Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa, the Middle East.
She became hooked. In 1957, she quit her job and left on what would become a two-year around-the-world journey. Of all the places she visited, Kathmandu made the strongest impression, and she vowed to return. A year later, she did, renting the spacious two-bedroom apartment she still lives in today and, eventually, landing a job as a correspondent for Reuters.
Soon she was socializing with Kathmandu's elite circle of expats and diplomats and members of the wealthy Rana family, who ruled the Kingdom of Nepal from 1846 until 1951. She tagged along on one of the king's tiger-hunting expeditions, drove prominent political figures home after parties, and, in early 1961, struck up what would become a lifelong friendship with Hillary, who had just returned from a failed attempt to track down a yeti.
It was a lucky scoop that sparked her lifelong interest in mountaineering. In 1963, Reuters wanted a story about the first U.S. expedition to Everest, a massive undertaking involving 18 Americans and almost 900 porters. Hawley, ever the newshound, worked her connections at the American embassy to gain access to a sideband radio, which allowed her to listen in as the climbers went up. She trumped the three other foreign correspondents in Kathmandu, and she became captivated with high-altitude drama. She'd found her beat.
Over the next few decades, Hawley worked part-time for Nepal's first trekking and travel agency, Tiger Mountain. But mostly she interviewed climbers. By the time commercially guided expeditions hit full swing in the mid-1990s, she had become the gatekeeper of altitude. "For a long time," Messner remembers, "she was one of the most important foreigners in Kathmandu."
It's a role she's clearly relished, and she has a treasure trove of stories that don't show up in the files. When Hawley tells me how Messner once checked not one but all of the boxes on a form pertaining to his relationship status—"Single," "Married," "Divorced," and "Living with Girlfriend"—a smile creeps across her face.
"I said, 'How'd you get all this?'"
"'In Italy I'm technically still married,' he said. 'In Germany I'm divorced and I am living with a girlfriend.'"
"I said, 'OK, but single?'"
"'I feel single,' he said."
IN THE AFTERNOON and evening, Hawley often follows up on the loose ends and discrepancies that inevitably arise from her in-person interviews. Long after a climber has descended and flown home, she'll interview the cook, call a climber's wife, meet a trusted trekking agent, dig up an out-of-print Japanese topo map, and otherwise do anything that might help triangulate the truth.
Once she's satisfied, she enters the data on her "perfectly satisfactory" 16-year-old Compaq Presario and files away the paperwork. Expedition packets are grouped in folders according to the peak and season, and each folder is filed in a drawer covering roughly one year, with peaks in the eastern part of Nepal at the front and those in the west toward the rear.
Six times a week, a Nepali woman enters the accumulated information into digital files, which end up on CDs, part of what's known as the Himalayan Database, a small commercial venture Hawley runs with Richard Salisbury, a retired climber and computer whiz who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
"It's not at all profitable," says Salisbury. "It's a passion project." To date, they've sold only 900 or so copies of the $70 CD-ROM, mainly to academics and physicians, who have used the data in human-performance research. The sheer volume of facts is almost overwhelming, but Hawley can rattle off statistical nuggets about virtually every subject I bring up: Koreans seem to have the worst safety record among climbers; no matter how much planning they do, two parties ascending different routes will almost never meet at the summit; countries sent mountaineers to the high Himalaya in the order they recovered from World War II—first the Americans, then Western Europeans, then Japanese, then Koreans, then Eastern Europeans.
It's the potential to mine her archives for trends like this that makes the data so invaluable. "She's the touchstone," says Maurice Isserman, coauthor of Fallen Giants, an epic history of mountaineering. "One of the first things I did before writing Fallen Giants was get the disc of her Himalayan record, which I would religiously consult."
While few mountaineers seem to take full advantage of the accumulated wisdom, others could have seriously missed out if they hadn't consulted her. Messner, for example, might not have become the first person to solo Everest without bottled oxygen if not for Hawley. When he met her in Kathmandu in the summer of 1979, he was planning to attempt the historic climb but was having trouble getting a permit from Nepal. Hawley informed him that a Japanese climber named Naomi Uemura was preparing to attempt the same feat. "I changed plans, got a permit from the Chinese, and went to China," he says.
While Hawley downplays her influence, the research she conducts continues to hold sway. Take the recent controversy regarding who was the first woman to climb all the 8,000-meter peaks, a race involving Oh Eun-Sun, a 45-year-old Korean, and Edurne Pasaban, a 37-year-old Basque and one of our adventurers of the year (see page 34). Oh supposedly won last spring, when she was filmed atop Annapurna, a crew broadcasting her triumph live on Korean television. The celebration didn't last long. People soon began to doubt whether shots from one of her previous expeditions, to 28,169-foot Kanchenjunga, had actually been taken at that peak's true summit.
Indeed, the Kanchenjunga summit photo appears highly dubious: all you see is a down-suited woman standing on rock in a white-out. As Hawley told the BBC, "Summit pictures of other people on the same mountain in the same season show them standing in the snow." Other minutiae—including the lack of identifying details in Oh's photo—have only raised more questions. Hawley has been in the middle of it, and her suspicions appear to have been borne out: in spring 2010, Oh admitted that, although one of her Sherpas still maintains that they reached the summit, she thinks they actually stopped "five vertical meters from the top." Until further notice, the climb will be listed as "Disputed" in Hawley's files.
As Hawley is quick to point out, she's not the judge and jury in these matters. She's a reporter. "We record," she says. "We find out what they did, or what they say they did. Sometimes it's different."
Many climbers take heed. "There's a lot of times that we go, 'We better be damn sure we go to the tip-top of this mountain, because Liz Hawley is gonna know if we don't,'" says Viesturs. "She'll ask, 'What did the summit look like?' And she knows what it should look like from photos and from talking to other people. If you can't describe it in the right way, she'll know you're making it up."
THIS SPRING, Hawley will run out of file cabinets. And while she's currently in good health, she knows she won't be able to take care of herself much longer. She has a nephew in Colorado who has offered to share his home, but she hasn't been to the States in 16 years. She feels settled in Nepal, and there remains much work to be done.
There are now so many expeditions passing through Kathmandu each day during the busiest seasons that she's hoping to hire a third assistant. But she hasn't been grooming a successor, and anyway, how could she?
"It's hard to believe that anyone will be able to replace her," says Jeff Blumenfeld, editor of Expedition News.
"We are of course worried about what will happen when Liz is not working anymore," says Tom Sjogren, one of the founders of ExplorersWeb, an adventure news site that relies on her info while also conducting its own reporting about expeditions in Pakistan, in China, and at the poles. Sjogren hopes to carry on Hawley's legacy in Nepal by using Wikipedia-style crowdsourcing but acknowledges that "it won't be easy."
Hawley's paper files have been bequeathed to the American Alpine Club and will most likely be shipped back to its headquarters in Golden, Colorado, someday. Whatever the case, Hawley can be proud to have pushed as high as she did, and in good style.
Before leaving, I broach the subject of her rumored loves and affairs.
"Hillary?" I ask.
"We were very good friends, but there was no romance," she says.
"No, no," she laughs. "He had lots of romances, but I wasn't one of them."
I look down at my notebook, which contains the names Eric Shipton, Jimmy Roberts, and Don Whillans. Just as I resume speaking, she interrupts.
"Don't work this too hard," she says, and I stop. Even though I know she wouldn't.


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This is very important for a coach like Kentucky's Rick Pitino. His game plan of three pointers and pressing defense is a high variance strategy, one that an underdog should take, not a favorite. This high variance strategy is how he got his unknown Providence team to the final 4 in 1986. This is how his Kentucky team came back from a record 33 point deficit a year ago. But continuously applying this high variance strategy on a team with great talent like Kentucky is asking for an upset. Kentucky has been among the favorites to win the NCAA title two out of the past three years, only to fall earlier than expected. Again this year, they were favorites, being preseason #1. But their high variance game plan cost them last night against Massachusetts. And it will likely cost them later on this season. Despite Kentucky's immense talent, coach Rick Pitino's risky game plan makes the team more susceptible to upsets.
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Again, reiterating my point that likely underdogs benefit from a high variance (i.e. high-risk) strategy, but that it might be inappropriate for heavy favorites. From Dean Oliver, via Basketball Prospectus:
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isocahedron.rarimport javax.vecmath.*; import com.sun.j3d.utils.universe.*; import javax.media.j3d.*; import com.sun.j3d.utils.behaviors.vp.*; import javax.swing.JFrame; import com.sun.j3d.loaders.*; import com.sun.j3d.loaders.objectfile.*; /** * An example for constructing an object (tetrahedron) with triangles * where normal vectors are interpolated. * * @author Frank Klawonn * Last change 05.07.2005 * @see GeomArrayExample */ public class Isocahedran extends JFrame { //The canvas to be drawn upon. public Canvas3D myCanvas3D; public Isocahedran() { //Mechanism for closing the window and ending the program. this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); //Default settings for the viewer parameters. myCanvas3D = new Canvas3D(SimpleUniverse.getPreferredConfiguration()); //Construct the SimpleUniverse: //First generate it using the Canvas. SimpleUniverse simpUniv = new SimpleUniverse(myCanvas3D); //Default position of the viewer. simpUniv.getViewingPlatform().setNominalViewingTransform(); //The scene is generated in this method. createSceneGraph(simpUniv); //Add some light to the scene. addLight(simpUniv); //The following three lines enable navigation through the scene using the mouse. OrbitBehavior ob = new OrbitBehavior(myCanvas3D); ob.setSchedulingBounds(new BoundingSphere(new Point3d(0.0,0.0,0.0),Double.MAX_VALUE)); simpUniv.getViewingPlatform().setViewPlatformBehavior(ob); //Show the canvas/window. setTitle("An object loaded from a file"); setSize(700,700); getContentPane().add("Center", myCanvas3D); setVisible(true); } public static void main(String[] args) { Isocahedran nfga = new Isocahedran(); } //In this method, the objects for the scene are generated and added to //the SimpleUniverse. public void createSceneGraph(SimpleUniverse su) { //Load an obj-file. ObjectFile f = new ObjectFile(ObjectFile.RESIZE); Scene s = null; try { s = f.load("isocahedron.obj"); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("File loading failed:" + e); } //Generate a transformation group for the loaded object. Transform3D tfObject = new Transform3D(); tfObject.rotZ(0.4*Math.PI); Transform3D xRotation = new Transform3D(); xRotation.rotY(0.4*Math.PI); tfObject.mul(xRotation); TransformGroup tgObject = new TransformGroup(tfObject); tgObject.addChild(s.getSceneGroup()); Appearance yellowApp = new Appearance(); setToMyDefaultAppearance(yellowApp,new Color3f(0.5f,0.5f,0.0f)); BranchGroup theScene = new BranchGroup(); //Add the tetrahedron to the scene. Background bg = new Background(new Color3f(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f)); BoundingSphere bounds = new BoundingSphere(new Point3d(0.0,0.0,0.0),Double.MAX_VALUE); bg.setApplicationBounds(bounds); theScene.addChild(bg); theScene.compile(); //Add everything to the universe. su.addBranchGraph(theScene); } /** * Generates a default surface (Appearance) in a specified colour. * * @param app The Appearance for the surface. * @param col The colour. */ public static void setToMyDefaultAppearance(Appearance app, Color3f col) { app.setMaterial(new Material(col,col,col,col,150.0f)); } //Some light is added to the scene here. public void addLight(SimpleUniverse su) { BranchGroup bgLight = new BranchGroup(); BoundingSphere bounds = new BoundingSphere(new Point3d(0.0,0.0,0.0), 100.0); Color3f lightColour1 = new Color3f(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f); Vector3f lightDir1 = new Vector3f(-1.0f,0.0f,-0.5f); DirectionalLight light1 = new DirectionalLight(lightColour1, lightDir1); light1.setInfluencingBounds(bounds); Vector3f lightDir2 = new Vector3f(1.0f,0.0f,0.5f); DirectionalLight light2 = new DirectionalLight(lightColour1, lightDir2); light2.setInfluencingBounds(bounds); bgLight.addChild(light1); bgLight.addChild(light2); su.addBranchGraph(bgLight); } }


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Kohlrabi is a strange looking vegetable that tastes an awful lot like broccoli stems. They come in green or purple and can be eaten raw or cooked. The word kohlrabi is German for cabbage turnip (kohl as in cole-slaw, and rübe for turnip) though kohlrabi is more related to cabbage and cauliflower than to root vegetables.
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John Travolta is reportedly in the Bahamas where he is expected to be called as a witness during the trial of two men who stand accused of extortion following the death of his son, Jett.
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Both have pleaded not guilty.
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"Going back was hard for him," a friend of the star told the mag. "The memories were too painful."
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Two witnesses – a paramedic and a police inspector — took the stand on Tuesday morning in a Bahamian court, a source inside the courtroom told Access Hollywood. It is unlikely any more witnesses or Travolta will be called to take the stand today.
On the morning of January 2, Lightbourn was one of the first paramedics to reach the Travoltas after Jett had suffered a seizure. Allegedly, John signed a "refusal to transport" document that morning with sensitive family information, which Lightbourn later allegedly attempted to sell back to the star via Bridgewater, who reached out to a Travolta attorney.
The actor subsequently filed an extortion complaint, which, by Bahamian law, necessitates his appearance in court to testify.
Jett, who was 16, succumbed to a "seizure disorder" while on vacation with his family in Grand Bahama on January 2, according to his death certificate. He was laid to rest following a service in Ocala, Fla., on January 8.
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The Official TRANSFORMERS Fan & Collectors' Convention Comes to Orlando for the First Time Ever
Interactive "HUNT FOR THE DECEPTICONS" Experience and Many More Activities Await Fans and Families at 16th Annual Event
June 24, 2010 08:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time
ORLANDO, Fla.–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Fans of AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS will "ROLL OUT" and head to Orlando for the 16th annual TRANSFORMERS Collectors' Convention, hosted by the TRANSFORMERS Collectors' Club and Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS). Thousands of TRANSFORMERS fans from around the world will converge at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort on June 26th and 27th to celebrate more than 25 years of "MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE" action and excitement at what is widely known as "BOTCON."
"The TRANSFORMERS Hall of Fame celebrates Hasbro's global entertainment property that has sparked the imagination of millions of kids over the past 26 years and remains one of the world's most iconic brands"
At this year's BOTCON, Hasbro is launching the TRANSFORMERS Hall of Fame to honor those influential in creating and building this iconic entertainment brand as well as actual "ROBOTS IN DISGUISE."
"The TRANSFORMERS Hall of Fame celebrates Hasbro's global entertainment property that has sparked the imagination of millions of kids over the past 26 years and remains one of the world's most iconic brands," said Greg Lombardo, senior global marketing director for TRANSFORMERS. "We are excited to induct the first TRANSFORMERS Hall of Fame class during the convention's visit to Orlando."
In addition to TRANSFORMERS influentials Bob Budiansky, Peter Cullen, Hideaki Yoke and Kohjin Ohno being inducted, favorite robot characters OPTIMUS PRIME, BUMBLEBEE, MEGATRON and STARSCREAM are members of the inaugural class. Hasbro will also announce and induct the "fan's choice" robot character, voted on by the TRANSFORMERS fan community, at a special TRANSFORMERS Hall of Fame induction ceremony event at BOTCON on Saturday, June 26 in the evening.
This year's convention will feature, for the first time ever, an interactive experience celebrating the launch of the global "HUNT FOR THE DECEPTICONS" online gaming promotion. In this experience, convention attendees can help the heroic AUTOBOTS locate and thwart the evil DECEPTICONS. BOTCON 2010 is the only place fans can partake in this physical interpretation of the online gaming experience.
BotCon will also feature appearances by iconic voice actors from the recent TRANSFORMERS global blockbuster movies and animated television series, as well as the Hasbro TRANSFORMERS brand team members and other industry guests. Guests will also have the opportunity to buy and sell merchandise, check out the new TRANSFORMERS: War for Cybertron video game, attend panel discussions led by TRANSFORMERS experts, view the fan-created diorama and customized figure contest, and win hourly door prizes.
The convention is being held at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort located at 1500 Epcot Resort Boulevard, Buena Vista, Florida. General admission tickets are available at the door, $18 for adults and $10 for children ages 6-12. As always, admission is free for those 5 years old and under. General Admission tickets are available day of visit and provide access to the showroom on Saturday, June 26th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., or on Sunday, June 27th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Additional details and pre-registration information can be found at botcon.com, or by calling (817) 448-9863.
About HASBRO
Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS) is a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time products and services with a rich portfolio of brands and entertainment properties that provides some of the highest quality and most recognizable play and recreational experiences in the world. As a brand-driven, consumer-focused global company, Hasbro brings to market a range of toys, games and licensed products, from traditional to high-tech and digital, under such powerful brand names as TRANSFORMERS, PLAYSKOOL, TONKA, MILTON BRADLEY, PARKER BROTHERS, CRANIUM and WIZARDS OF THE COAST. Come see how we inspire play through our brands at http://www.hasbro.com.


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ALPHARETTA, GA — (Marketwire) — 11/30/12 — EndoChoice, Inc., an emerging leader in GI endoscopy, announced today that it has been awarded a group purchasing agreement with HealthTrust for endoscope care, cleaning and protection accessories. Since 2008, EndoChoice has been an industry leader in developing innovative products that make the process of cleaning, transporting, and protecting endoscopes both easier and safer. Included in this award are EndoChoice-s revolutionary Compliance EndoKit®, CinchPad®, SafeStart® bedside clean kit, Koala® cleaning sponges, Hedgehog® cleaning brushes, and new EndoGlide+ 1.1 oz single-use lubricant.
The new agreement allows HealthTrust-s members, which include nearly 1,400 not-for-profit and for-profit acute care facilities, as well as 10,600 ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices and alternate care sites, to take advantage of special pricing and pre-negotiated terms.
"We are pleased to expand upon our existing relationship with HealthTrust and provide their member facilities with a full spectrum of products that streamline and standardize the process of reprocessing endoscopes," said Mark Gilreath, EndoChoice-s Founder and CEO. "This contract gives HealthTrust-s member facilities access to the clinical and regulatory benefits provided by EndoChoice-s revolutionary Compliance EndoKit® as well as other propriety products. Combined with our existing agreement for endoscope repair services, EndoChoice now provides HealthTrust members with industry-leading products and services across the entire endoscope life cycle."
EndoChoice developed its Compliance EndoKit® and individual components to help GI specialists meet established guidelines to reduce the risks for cross-contamination in endoscopic procedures. For the past four years, the ERCI Institute has named the reprocessing of flexible endoscopes as one of the top ten technology risks in healthcare today. With over 24 million GI endoscopy procedures being performed this year in the United States, infection control remains a serious concern. The products made available for HealthTrust members in this contract are designed to help standardize the infection control process and thereby decrease the risk of cross-contamination in a GI endoscopy lab.
HealthTrust (), headquartered in Brentwood, Tennessee, is a group purchasing organization that supports nearly 1,400 not-for-profit and for-profit acute care facilities, as well as 10,600 ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices and alternate care sites. With an annual purchasing volume by its members of more than $21 billion, HealthTrust is committed to obtaining the best price for clinically recommended products, ensuring their timely delivery, and continuously evaluating and improving its services to the patients, physicians and clinicians it serves. HealthTrust is closely integrated with the provider-proven capabilities of Parallon Business Solutions () which include revenue cycle and business process expertise, workforce management solutions, supply chain services and technology solutions.
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Malaysian Policeman Caught in Action
Look carefully.
The picture says it all.
P/S: The policeman came back with a coffee cup in his hand. ;)
Look carefully.
The picture says it all.
P/S: The policeman came back with a coffee cup in his hand. ;)
Kena tangkap basah!
Police should saman police.
lol. preparing for their next "meal" ;)
juz bcoz they're police doesn't mean dat they can simply break the rule
In overseas, police are allowed to. I duno bout Malaysia.
send this to the star!!!!! earn Rm50! =)
saman 2x !!
lol. you should submit this onto failblog or something :)
hahha…..they'll come out with all sorts of reasoning when they are caught doing such things. =)
this is a good one man! :P
In my opinion, this is not the most unacceptable one.
Maybe the police is writing summon for other cars?
hah hah hah, this is great! haha
Ya…send it to The Star!!! Those hopeless people…I've seen them put on the siren and overtake all cars simply because they did not want to wait in line at the traffic lights – even though there's no emergency!
haha, don't you know policemen don't have to follow the rules, they just have their special prerogatives?? :p
this is hilarious
Bro, its that @ nilai? if not mistaken maybank right? i also saw many times liao….then when i ask the saman parking officer, the guy said that the police is do his job to take care the maybank.but when i went to the maybank, i ddnt saw any police there & oso i check other bank nearby as well.
haha!!.. isnt that area… is opposite da Maybank…. 1???
Hmmmm… you took the pic? Will u be in trouble? LOL
ask him saman himself la lols. I totally agree, send to star let everyone see. Haha
LOL…. F*ck them… Maybe they even didn't pay for the coffee LOL
Well! Well! This shows how lousy and unprofessional some of our policemen are! :p
this is msia…
later u kena tangkap masuk ISA ler…
Actually nothing much u can do… They all 'yat tam tam' de. Lol…
haihz going to raya liao..police also seen everywhere now jor…~*
Man, nice blog you got over here. Can I have your e-mail? contact me @ my email.
They're working hard to earn money too.. cant blame them =\
how dare they saman the drivers when they also do such thing. shame on them.
gud take!
Malaysia Boleh..
Ken.. how come i cannot see any policeman? something wrong with my pc or what.. is it a video or just a pic? all i saw is the car only..
Police car parking beside a "no parking" sign ;)
He..He..Policeman also at fault!
Send this to The Star newspaper see whether they'll publish it, I dare you!
well, tai sai ma..
It is Malaysia, anything is possible. Malaysia Boleh!
U should submit on thumbnail on The Star
"The policeman came back with a coffee cup in his hand."
Tak puasa?
I've seen countless stuff like this… police patrol cars and the officers that ride in those cars are, it seems, invincible to some road rules and traffic laws that apply to the rest of us.
Like for example, I have never ever seen before, in my entire life in this country, a police officer driving a police patrol car with his seat belts on. Never. They never have them on.
You should send it to The Star newspaper and win RM50.
And one more thing is that why police is exempted from wearing seat belt? So that they can get out of the car faster to chase thief? Or so that they can avoid bullets aims at them? Or is that when there is an accident, they wont fly out of the window.?
Macam macam ada…..
must take video then upload to youtube… and send this picture to the NST or star :)
hahaha….malaysia mah….anything pun boleh one ler…
the clearer the plat number, the better the point is… hehehehehe
hahaha those police are primary law-abusers =P
Malaysia police is like that ke la~
They think they are the GOD in M'sia, so they do whatever they like..including park at NO-PARKING area……Grrrrrrr~~~
You should take the picture the police holding the coffee too!! Anyway, thanks for taking the risk for taking the picture of this~
So everybody know how "good" our police are! Pissed off *breath in …breath out…..uhhhh..ahhhhh*
A bunch of bastards!
Eh, biler kau ambik gambar ni? bulan puasa ker lepas berbuka??
During puasa month. Don't worry, the policeman is an Indian.
hmmmm…. i cant see it.
lol, dint notice the no P sign, sleepy
haiyoooo…. hmmm… take his pic next time.. and enlarge… ahahhhah….
aiyar tak nampak!
haha… Malaysia police is like tat one..
LOL. what to do, MALAYSIA BOLEH maah
Great job, keep it up!
But police are immune from any traffic law..
they went to buy donut kot..
Hi Ken, ha ha, nice pic. Bet he has some questions to answer.
Would you believe here even the Mayor got fined for exceeding speed limit, AND? The Chief of police got a parking ticket! Ha ha. Lee.
Its very interesting to see Malaysian police car..
Oh, I must keep this photo! Next time when I park in front of a No Parking sign and got saman, I can show the police this photo. Haha!
After drink kopi, eat duit kopi =P
LOL if police dun obey the rule. Then who will wan to follow the rule. haha
Whoa, that's bad.
Patrol car can park anywhere one :p
Nice Parking Man!
Should have captured the license plate number.
Do citizen arrest… go go~~~ XD
hahaha…kantoi sudah..sape nak jawab nie???
they call the shots, dun they
personally, i really dislike malaysian police. My mum was involved in an accident with a drunk driver, and I was there as well. But the police took their bribe and the guilty party went off free. Useless …


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Photo Flash: HARVEY at Wayside Theatre in Middletown, VA
The play began performances March 27 and opens 28th continuing a run through April 24th.
The comedy, is written by Mary Chase. It is the story of likeable man and his imaginary friend "Harvey", a 6-foot, three-and-a-half-inch-tall rabbit. Elwood P. Dowd starts to introduce his imaginary friend, Harvey, a pooka, to guests at a society party. His society obsessed sister, Veta, has seen as much of his eccentric behavior as she can tolerate. She decides to have him committed to a sanitarium to spare her daughter Myrtle Mae and their family from future embarrassment. When they arrive at the sanitarium, due to a comedy of errors, the doctors commit Veta instead of Elwood, but when the truth comes out, the search is on for Elwood and his invisible companion.
The large cast is a mix of Wayside Theatre audience's veteran favorites:
Returning to recreate the role of Elwood Dowd is Larry Dahlke (Southern Crossroads, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Smoke on the Mountain Trilogy, It's A Wonderful Life: A Radio Show), Thomasin Savaiano ( Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Man of La Mancha, Southern Crossroads, Smoke on the Mountains trilogy, Diaries of Adam & Eve), David Maga (Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Southern Crossroads, Smoke on the Mountain trilogy, Miracle on 34th Street, Sherlock Holmes, The Final Adventure), James Laster (Gin Game, Miracle on 34th Street, Unnecessary Farce, A Christmas Carol, Foxfire, It's A Wonderful Life), Sarah Blackwell (Miracle on 34th Street, Comedy of Errors, and It's A Wonderful Life), Dacia Dick (Unnecessary Farce, Southern Crossroads, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story), Molly Knudsen (Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Carol, and Comedy of Errors) Cody Murphy (Man of La Mancha, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Miracle on 34th Street), Aviva Pressman (Miracle on 34th Street, Man of La Mancha, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure) and Jayson Belew (Miracle on 34th Street, Man of La Mancha, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure) and newcomer to Wayside Theatre main stage, Eddie Staver (The Midsummer's Night Dream).
Harvey is directed by Warner Crocker, Artistic Director. The production is designed by Til Turner, Set Designer and Technical Director, Paul Callahan, Lighting Designer and Steve Przybylski, Sound Designer, and Tamara Carruthers, Costume Designer.
Harvey begins performances with one low priced performance at 2:30 pm on Saturday, March 27th. The official opening night is Sunday, March 28th at 6:30pm. Performances will continue through April 24th. Ticket prices are $25 to $30 dollars for adults. Prices for children 17 and under are $10 for any show. Ask about discounts available for students and seniors. Group discounts are also available. Wayside Theatre also sells discounted subscriptions for the entire season with options that fit any budget and any schedule.
Performances each week for Harvey will be Saturday matinees at 2:30 pm, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 pm and Saturday matinees at 2:30 PM. There will be two Sunday matinees at 2:30 pm April 11 and 18 and closed on Easter Sunday.
Wayside Theatre is the oldest professional theatre in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and is celebrating its 48th season of presenting high quality, professional entertainment in 2009-2010. Single tickets and group packages can be obtained by calling the Box Office at (540) 869-1776. The 2010-2011 Season Subscription is on sell now. The 49th Season begins on June 5, 2010 through April 23, 2011. Call the box office to order your next season subscription. Additional information can be obtained on the theatre's website at www.waysidetheatre.org. Wayside Theatre is located in Middletown, Virginia on Route 11, Main Street, just north of the intersection of I-66 and I-81.
Photography by Westervelt
Larry Dahlke (Elwood P. Dowd)
Cody Murphy and Larry Dahlke
Eddie Staver III, Aviva Pressman and Larry Dahlke
James Laster, Thomasin Savaiano and Molly Knudsen


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Hardware sites are abuzz with news that Intel is preparing a 22nm Atom chip with a state-of-the-art integrated graphics core on board.
The CPU is codenamed Valley View and it'll be part of a platform called Balboa Pier, slides that have leaked out of kit maker Advantech reveal.
Balboa Pier will is the follow-up to netbook platform Cedar Trail which finally arrived late last year.
Separately, a fellow named Jesse Barnes, said to be in Intel employee, has been telling open source GUI developers that "Valley View is a Cedar View-like chip but with an Ivy Bridge graphics core", a forum poster at Phoronix spotted.
A netbook with a decent graphics capability at last? The notion is tickling the fancies of hardware geeks across the net.
Such a shame then that, being a netbook chip, it'll be used to drive a 1024 x 600 screen running Windows 8 Starter Edition. And it's likely to debut at a time, late 2012, when the netbook market will have slumped as punters opt instead for tablets.
Traditionally, Intel's netbook chips have sat well back, from a performance and capability perspective, from its notebook processors. If indeed Valley View has an Ivy Bridge graphics core, it seems Intel is bringing Atom more up to date, presumably in a bid to revive the netbook market by making them a little less like last year's laptops. ®


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Beef Quesadillas with Salsa
These easy, cheesy steak quesadillas are packed with beef and topped with pineapple salsa. And because it's a little sweet and not too spicy, they are very kid friendly.
Total TimePrep/Total Time: 30 min.
Makes4 servings (4-1/2 cups salsa)
- 3/4 pound beef top sirloin steak, cut into thin strips
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 to 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1-1/2 cups shredded pepper Jack cheese
- 4 flour tortillas (10 inches)
- 4 medium tomatoes, chopped
- 1-1/2 cups cubed fresh pineapple
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
- 2 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- Sprinkle steak with salt and pepper. In a large skillet, saute steak in 1 tablespoon oil until no longer pink.
- Sprinkle 1/4 cup cheese over one side of each tortilla; top with 1/3 cup beef and remaining cheese. Fold tortillas over.
- In another large skillet, cook two quesadillas in 1 tablespoon oil over medium heat for 1-2 minutes on each side or until cheese is melted. Repeat with remaining quesadillas and oil. Cut into wedges.
- In a large bowl, combine the salsa ingredients; serve with quesadillas. Cover and refrigerate remaining salsa.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 645 calories, 33g fat (12g saturated fat), 92mg cholesterol, 1067mg sodium, 49g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 9g fiber), 34g protein.
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The B.C. film industry may be struggling, but B.C. filmmakers have rarely been in finer form.
This year, the Vancouver International Film Festival, which takes place Sept. 26 to Oct. 11, not only has a bumper crop of made-in-B.C. movies on display but also a new prize to honour them.
"We ended up selecting a dozen B.C. features and there were another half-dozen that we had to leave behind," said Canadian Images programmer Terry McEvoy. "It's really special that in spite of the tax credits there are a lot of creative people here who are making damn good films."
The B.C. films will be competing for a $10,000 prize (sponsored by the Harold Greenberg Fund) and the festival has added another $7,500 award for a B.C. Emerging Filmmakers (sponsored by UBCP/AFBS).
The Canadian Images section kicks off with an East Coast film with a major B.C. component: All the Wrong Reasons (shot in Halifax) features late B.C. actor and Glee star Cory Monteith, who died earlier this year in Vancouver from a drug overdose.
Director Gia Milani, who just picked up the Grolsch Film Works Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival for the movie will be in attendance and tickets have been flying so fast an additional screening has already been added (Oct. 3).
But as always the biggest component of the international film festival is the international lineup with more than 75 countries represented in 341 films.
VIFF kicks off Sept. 26 with a gala screening of the Canadian premiere of Nebraska, the latest movie by Oscar winner Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants), which scored a standing ovation in Cannes. Screenwriter Bob Nelson and actor Will Forte (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock) will be in town for the launch.
The Dragons & Tigers section featuring "cinemas of the Far East" kicks off with Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin and includes movies from China, Japan, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.
This year's fest also features a special spotlight on France offering 11 movies including François Ozon's Young & Beautiful and Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel, 1915.
Non-fiction features (the art previously known as documentaries) are represented by works from Canada, the U.S., Sweden, Ecuador, France, Haiti, the UK, Brazil, Cambodia and the roster includes several North American and Canadian premieres.
This year's fest also offers a late night series presenting what their press release describes as "oddities." The series, which includes the Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves and Bobcat Goldthwait's new Bigfoot horror movie Willow Creek, comes with the warning: "Your dreams may never be the same."
But the biggest buzz at this year's festival may come from a small screen star.
Vince Gilligan, the creator of Breaking Bad, is in town on Sept. 27 to kick off the festival's VIFF Film & TV forum less than 48 hours before the finale of his critically acclaimed television show, which just picked up the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series.
Gilligan, who cut his creative teeth in Vancouver working on The X-Files is at the Rio Theatre (Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.) for a special talk labelled "One Last Cook."
For a look at the complete VIFF lineup, visit viff.org


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I have grown up with his music, and some of it I have really liked, but never heard the song "Earth Song" until browsing his videos after his passing. The beauty and passion and intensity it evokes in me brings me to heavy tears. His songs "Heal the World" and "We are the World" have come to life for me since his passing. While he was here I was too desensitized to him to hear the heart of these songs. But now with him gone I feel his hearts desire to make great change, I hear his care and concern for suffering in this world, and I admire him so for it.
He was beautiful for sharing his soul so deeply through his music and performance, despite judgment. If his purpose was to express what was in his heart for the world to see, than he achieved it. I think it's rare than one lives up to such a noble purpose, adheres to such a high calling, and persists through such hell as he did. I don't mean to make him sound flawless, as we are all human, but the greatness in him can't be denied. He was great musically as well and in spirit. His heart loved deeply and cared deeply, and it takes a STRONG heart to continue to love in a cold and harsh climate as this world is. Bless him, we'll never forget him. He graciously left his music with us, therefore his heart is with us...
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Amendments will most likely be made.
Basically, Harhaven is a map related to various maps such as DotA, Hero Wars, and RotD; any ideas taken from a map will be credited. This is how you play:
• If you win you will be sent to the other team to aid them in combat, as well as acquire a code to move on to the next campaign. [NEW]
• If you lose you just sit there and watch the other team play, or if the other team has already won and they have attempted to aid you in battle, and you still lose, not only will you have lost (duh) but the other team's players will also have lost 6 experience points. [NEW]
• There will be a save/load experience system (partial credit to RotD) so you can choose better heroes depending on your experience; each death decreases experience by 1, each raider kill increases experience by 2, each hero level up increases experience by 1, each hero kill increases experience by 4, each win increases experience by 12, each loss decreases experience by 6, and every item bought gives 1 experience.
• You can upgrade your hero in several ways: Damage, by doing the Weaponry Merchants' quests; Attributes, by accomplishing the Attribute Trainers' requirements; Leveling up, again by accomplishing some of the Attribute Trainers' requirements.
• There are four shops: the Attribute Trainers, one trainer to each team, simply gives you quests (every quest completed is a requirement completed) to acquire better attributes; the Weaponry Merchants, one to each team, gives you quests (every quest completed is a requirement completed) to buy or receive better weaponry; the Bodyguard Managers, two to each team, both give different types of bodyguards (or units) to aid you in your efforts to fend off oncoming raiders; and the Ticket Treant, from which you buy a Ticket to entire the creeping grounds (where all heroes from both teams may attack each other) to gain experience.
• The more experience each team possesses the better upgraded the Haven Raiders and the weaker the Haven Defenders start out at (balancing part for newcomers (partial credit to RotD)).
• Each teams' heroes can not cross over to the opposing team's side (to stop this from being called another Hero Wars and/or a DotA rip-off).
• They goal of the game is to keep the raiders from getting to your entity.
Once there was a great Azeroth Haven, where all creatures, strong and weak, demonic and angelic, lived in harmony. Then one day, they came... the raiders of Lord Bose, the most horrific and fowl army of demons ever to set foot in Azeroth! So hungry for power in, Bose and his army have razed almost every Haven out there, and have sieged every known kingdom in the East. Now, they have found the last few Havens in all of Azeroth: Gunzen, the haven of discovery; Nezerdeth, the haven of secrey; Butzenale, the haven of knowledge; and yours- Harhaven, the haven of defense. Unfortunately they have just located your haven. Now they challenge your haven's title. Are you strong enough to fend them off? Or will they raze your haven and destroy everything you stand for? The battle for survival, is at hand.
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Acne Dog Photos For Spring 2013 by William Wegman
Because Dogs Make Everything More Fun: Acne Partners With Wegman
Because Dogs Make Everything More Fun: Acne Partners With Wegman
William Wegman, the photographer best known for his surreal images of Weimaraners, has partnered with Acne for a seven-photo "portfolio" starring the elegant pooches. Modeling shoes, hats, and printed suits from the Spring 2013 and Resort 2013 collections, the dogs pose on pedestals and white boxes, their expressionless faces leaving plenty of room for interpretation by the viewer. "I'm a big fan of William Wegman's work, its beauty, witty humor, and intelligence, but also what it says about identity and culture," Acne creative director Jonny Johansson explains of the collaboration. "I always thought it would be interesting to work on a project together. The outcome is beyond all expectation."
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Welcome to Northwest Surgical Hospital
On behalf of the staff and physicians of Northwest Surgical Hospital we would like to welcome you to our website and share with you our total commitment to providing exceptional, safe patient care and compassionate service to all our patients and their families.
Northwest Surgical Hospital is accredited by DNV Healthcare and has a philosophy of patient focused care in a family oriented environment. Our size allows us the opportunity to be responsive and innovative and to provide very personalized care utilizing a team approach. While we have state-of-the-art facilities and technology, it is the dedication and experience of our staff and physicians that is the secret to our success.
We realize that undergoing an operation may be an uneasy experience. Therefore, through our values of Compassion, Attitude, Respect, Excellence and Service we strive to make your visit as pleasant, comfortable and successful as possible. These values drive our organization.
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Small in size, the ifm distance sensors with time-of-flight measurement based on PMD technology (PMD = Photonic Mixer Device) are distinguished by a very long range, reliable background suppression, a visible red laser light spot and a high excess gain.
The sensors are resistant to extraneous light and can be used in workshops where daylight hits the sensor or object from above. Reflective objects such as metal surfaces are reliably detected; reflective strips on high-vis vests reliably suppressed. Distances can also be measured reliably when the light beam does not hit the object surface vertically. This allows flexible mounting, facilitates installation and saves costs. The accurate background suppression ensures that even shiny, matt, dark or light objects are safely detected.
The distance sensors are designed for positioning, speed control and level monitoring tasks. For example, they can be used to protect autonomous industrial transport systems or cranes against collision or position industrial trucks in high rack storage areas.
Versions with laser class 1 meet the requirements of applications in the automotive industry.


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Counties in McHenry County, North Dakota Receiving Commodity Payments, 2018
Source: Environmental Working Group. Compiled from USDA data.
‡ Data for 2019 is incomplete and only includes Market Facilitation Program payments made between January 1, 2019 and October 31, 2019.